Own Sarvam's Intel surface end-to-end, optimizing AI models for Intel hardware in a fast-moving team focused on India's AI needs.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Sarvam is building a full-stack sovereign AI platform focused on making AI genuinely work for India.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Performance Engineer at Sarvam AI is responsible for managing the end-to-end performance of Intel's hardware, focusing on deploying machine learning models on various Intel architectures. Key skills include expertise in OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, and x86 CPU optimization, with a strong emphasis on production-level experience. This role is ideal for seasoned professionals with a background in machine learning deployment and a deep understanding of Intel's ecosystem. Sarvam AI offers a dynamic environment where high ownership and impactful work are prioritized.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Sarvam AI's career page.
- Sarvam AI has 62 other open roles including Performance Engineer, Inference, Platform Engineer - AI Infrastructure, ML Ops Engineer, Chanakya.
- 8 active ONNX Runtime roles on Joblaze right now.
- 5 active x86 roles on Joblaze right now.
- 3 active AMX roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Performance Engineer, Intel Stack role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AMD64, AMX, AVX-512, Intel GPU, Intel NPU, ONNX Runtime.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Sarvam AI targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Performance Engineer, Intel Stack role at Sarvam AI.
From the original posting
About Sarvam
Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India’s full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India’s leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.
About the Role
Own sarvam's Intel surface end-to-end: Intel NPU via OpenVINO (Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, vPro AI PCs), Intel integrated and discrete GPU via OpenVINO and ONNX Runtime, and x86/AMD64 CPU optimization for fallback paths. You're the technical face to Intel's ecosystem and OpenVINO team.
What You’ll Do
Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU / dGPU / iGPU inside defined SLAs
Own the OpenVINO build/quantization recipe for the team's models, including the driver-version compatibility matrix
Drive x86 CPU optimization for the universal fallback path - AVX-512, AMX, threading strategy.
Own the Intel device-CI pool and regression detection across OpenVINO upgrades.
What We're Looking For
5+ years on ML deployment with 2+ years on Intel inference stacks.
Production OpenVINO experience including model conversion, accuracy validation post-quantization, and driver-version pinning.
ONNX Runtime EP knowledge - when OpenVINO EP vs. native OpenVINO, when to fall back to CPU EP.
x86 CPU profiling and optimization - VTune, perf, comfort reading hot loops at the assembly level when needed.
AVX-512 or AMX intrinsics is a strong plus, not a must-have.
Bonus Points
Direct prior interaction with the OpenVINO team or Intel ecosystem partners.
Custom OpenVINO operator authoring.
Why Sarvam?
Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.
Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar
High ownership and high impact, from day one
Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems
You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates
If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be.